All we know about Emily Ratajkowski’s engagement ring and wedding band

A paperclip for one, melted gold for the other. With their home-made rings, Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard prove that they like doing things their own way. Here’s all we know about their surprise wedding, from her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Emily Ratajkowski shocked all her fans in February when she announced that she had secretly married Sebastian Bear-McClard, a producer that she’s only known for a few weeks. After a honeymoon in the Utah desert, the model resumed her new life on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, explaining how the couple decided to get hitched. “He proposed to me at Minetta Tavern (a bar in New York). He didn’t have a ring, so I said, hmm, nah,” jokes Emily Ratajkowski to the famous TV presenter. “Then he took the paperclip that the bill was paid with and made me a ring, which I thought was really romantic.” After her paperclip engagement ring, Emily Ratajkowski announced her engagement through a series of Instagram selfies. As they had to wait 24 hours before officially being allowed to marry in the New York mayoral office, a day that the young couple spent on a search for wedding bands: “In Chinatown, we bought an ounce of gold and decided to melt down the gold to make the rings. I said, I don’t think we can melt down gold, like that just seems kind of difficult,” she recounts. “But then, he found a store in Midtown and found a man who melted down rings and hammered them out, using a blowtorch. They were meant to be temporary, but now I’m attached and I really don’t want to get rid of it.” How to make a one-of a kind ring.

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